Language is the Key: Evidence-Based Video Training for Early Language and Literacy
How Can Language is the Key Help You?
Language is the Key teaches parents and teachers how to:
- Prepare children for literacy and learning.
- Enhance language development.
- Encourage positive parent-child interactions.
What You Get
Each set of Language is the Key ($179) includes:
- "Talking & Books": (20+ min, DVD or VHS). Shows how to use picture books to promote language development and early literacy. Teaches dialogic reading strategies. Engaging, high-quality video can be used for large group, small group, and individual learning.
- "Talking & Play": (20+ minutes, DVD or VHS). "Talking and Play" shows how to promote language and literacy when children are engaged in play or everyday activities. The program reinforces the dialogic reading strategies taught in "Talking & Books" and helps trainees transfer the strategies to everyday settings.
- Resource Guide with handouts and instructions for trainers.
Easy-to-learn. Video examples and print materials make strategies easy to learn.
Easy-to-use. Strategies fit naturally into daily activities.
Effective. Supported by research evidence. Teaches dialogic reading strategies.
Engaging. High-quality video and audio draws viewers in and keeps their attention.
Available in English, Spanish, Korean, Vietnamese, Mandarin, Filipino. Each version features parents and children who are native speakers of each language. All versions of Language is the Key programs are available in DVD and VHS format.
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Reproduction Policy
Yes! You can make copies of our video and print materials. However, copies cannot be sold.
To make this possible we had to keep costs very low. We decided to use minimal, environmentally responsible packaging, and we advertise almost exclusively through our web site and e-mail
